"Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard."

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Helene Cixous

#Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes #Body Quotes

“Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?”

Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.8
“I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.”
“It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the unspeakable horrors of the middle passage. Christian slaveholders treated their slaves as they did the cattle in their fields: they worked them, scourged them, mated them , parted them, and sold them at will. Abolition came with the decline in religious belief, and largely through the efforts of those who were denounced as heretics.”
“By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.”
“Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.”
“Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.”

Source : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
“I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films.”

Source : "Holt McCallany and Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview, collider.com. March 23, 2011.
“Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.”

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